ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,207,842, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to Boston Scientific Scimed Inc. (Maple Grove, Minn.).
"Endoscopic ultrasound guided access needle" was invented by John Thomas Favreau (Charlton, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An access needle includes a hollow shaft having a lumen sized and shaped to slidably receive a guidewire therein and having a distal end including an angled surface extending proximally and transversely from a sharpened distal-most tip of the shaft to a beveled smoothed area of the shaft proximal and transverse to the sharpened tip. The beveled smoothed area is positioned to slidably engage a guidewire extended dista...